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For all his erstwhile gin, juice and pimpin', rapper Snoop (nee Doggy Dogg) has, in recent years, become something of an upstanding citizen: spinning a hip-hop career into a 360 business empire, trying to be a good dad. His rebranding as a Rastafarian mirrors this post-gangsta reality. For all this calculation, songs discouraging firearms such as No Guns Allowed do have the lilt of sincerity about them. And quite a few tracks on this star-studded, Major Lazer-produced album amuse – Lighters Up, say, or Smoke the Weed, with its (cough) ecological concerns. But Snoop has some way to go as a conscious voice before he convinces anyone that he is the reincarnation of Bob Marley.

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